MANCHURIAN STRIFE
RUSSIANS LEAVING CAPITAL COMMUNISTS TAKE OVER AIRPORT (Rec. 11 a.m.) CHUNGKING, April 25. The Communists are reported to have taken over Harbin airport. The Danish Consul, Sage Jorgensen, who new fronyHarbm yesterday, said the Russians were preparing for their withdrawal, which is scheduled for today. He added that the Red army, during its' eight; months', occupation, shot 100 Soviet soldiers for crimes against the Chinese. The Information Minister, Wu, said that the nationalists regarded Harbin as lost to the Communists. V
A Communist spokesman expressed the opinion that the party would not bo willing to hand over Changchun and Harbin to the Central Government, even if a general settlement of the Manchurian question were negotiated. Lieutenant-general Ohao Chiah-siang, chief, of . staff of the Government's North-eastern Command, declared that 38,000 experienced Japanese troops and 40.000 Koreans bore the brunt of the fighting for the Communists in the Szepkingkai and Changehun battles. The Communists are not trained for positional warfare, and therefore used the Japanese and .Koreans in: the front lines. The Communists are also employing the Japanese to construct concrete defences along a line 40 miles; south of Changchun from which the Government forces are endeavouring to reach the Manchurian capital.
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Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 8
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